I'm a designer too?? ;-) Myrtle Beach here I come. THANK YOU ALL!!!

As a homeschooler my mom and I are always looking for fun, creative activities that I can do. When I heard about the Myrtle Beach Mini Marathon medal competition I was stoked. I could use my creative talents, I like to draw.  It would be a cool thing to design my own medal.  Last year I wanted to run the half but, I did't train. However I did train and run the 5k.

                        This is my family and I running the 5K and my mom after her half marathon.

When designing the medal I had to follow a few of the medal  rules.  They were, it had to have 3 colors, be shaped like a surf board, had to have bottle opener, and the background color had to be bronze or silver. I used the color blue because It's my favorite.  I drew the state of SC on it because I thought it was needed and made the medal look cool.  I put the sun on the medal because everyone has fun in the sun while at Myrtle Beach.  I thought it would be fun for a shark to be the bottle opener.  When I was done I sent in my medal design and waited for people to vote for it. After a long time of waiting I finally won.  



I really like how the computer design made my medal come to life.  The artist that works for Myrtle Beach Mini did an awesome job.  I love the added palm trees and the date makes it perfect.  


I have some awesome friends that are running the race because of me since I designed the medal. During the half we are going to dress up in the same colors as the medal. So be on the look out for us all.  

I want to thank everyone who supported me in the voting contest. My goal of running Myrtle Beach and earning my medal has just became real.  I have already started training and will keep on so that that I can earn my design.  

I can't wait to cross the finish line and for my dad to hand me a cool glass bottle Coca-Cola, so that I can pop it open with my shark medal!!!    

I want to congratulate Mr. Anthony the 2nd place winner. His medal will be the 5k medal. My family and I will also be running the 5k this year and earning his awesome design.

My goal is to encourage others to be active and healthy.
 If your goal is to run Myrtle beach then sign up fast because the price goes up on May 15th. You can sign up here, tell them Bryson the medal designer sent you :-)  http://www.runmyrtlebeach.com/